Pascal Bourguignon  <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
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| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > Oh, o.k., so the SANS "Survival Time" metric [bottom of the right
| > side of <http://isc.sans.org/>] is up from 12 minutes a while back to
| > almost 30 minutes. Whoopee. To quote from the linked-to page:
| >    ...
| >    The main issue here is of course that the time to download critical
| >    patches will exceed this survival time. ...
| 
| Which, of course, is to be compared to the survival time of any other
| OS, including Linux, MacOSX, NeXTSTEP, *BSD, OpenVMS, MacOS, LispM,
| whatever, which is practically infinite.
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Exactly the point. For example, two of my machines at home:

    rpw3@fast 6% uptime
    12:46AM  up 258 days,  2:33, 12 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
    rpw3@fast 7% ssh slow uptime
    12:32AM  up 1307 days, 18:41, 0 users, load averages: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01
    rpw3@fast 8% 

Granted, the second is "only" a DNS backup, and I do occasionally
need to reboot the main DNS/SMTP/HTTP "server" [which is really just
a cheap desktop machine!] to upgrade the O/S... maybe once a year,
if that!  ;-}


-Rob

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